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“This Changes Everything” Book Club

In anticipation for scholar-activist Naomi Klein’s upcoming speaking event on April 5 at the LaSells Stewart Center, the Spring Creek Project is hosting a series of discussions on Klein’s most recent book This Changes Everything: Capitalism versus the Climate. We will be meeting at the Multicultural Literacy Center on three Wednesday evenings: Wednesday, Februrary 15, March 1, and March 15, 6:00pm

Please join us for what is sure to be a stimulating conversation on the prospects for changing humanity’s current relationship with the environment, and charting out a better pathway forward from the current trends of a deepening climate crisis.

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed system and build something radically better. In her most provocative talk yet, Naomi Klein tackles the most profound threat humanity has ever faced: the war our economic model is waging against life on earth.

We have been told the market will save us, when in fact the addiction to profit and growth is digging us in deeper every day. We have been told it’s impossible to get off fossil fuels when in fact we know exactly how to do it—it just requires breaking every rule in the “free-market” playbook. We have also been told that humanity is too greedy and selfish to rise to this challenge. In fact, all around the world, the fight back is already succeeding in ways both surprising and inspiring. Climate change, Klein argues, is a civilizational wake-up call, a powerful message delivered in the language of fires, floods, storms, and droughts. Confronting it is no longer about changing the light bulbs. It’s about changing the world—before the world changes so drastically that no one is safe. Either we leap—or we sink.